In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.

Digital living will include less and less dependence upon being in a specific place at a specific time, and the transmission of place itself will start to become possible.

Most children in the world go to schools in two shifts, there's a morning shift and an afternoon shift.

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.

My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.